Thomas Edgerly Timeline 1630 to 1665

Thomas Edgerly Timeline 1630 to 1665

1630- April 1- Thomas Edgerly the First, when 16 years old became an apprentice seamen, Signing a contract with Captain Issac Thompson of Roxbury, Mass. In Yarmouth, England.

April 7- They sailed from Yarmouth with several ships of the General Winthrop fleet. Their ship the "Arabella" landed in Boston July 30, 1630.

December- Captain Thompson was taken very ill and died. Thomas Edgerly was released from his control. He returned to England.

1637- Thomas Edgerly the Second was born in Oxfordshire, England. Different sources say Shrewsbury or Great Milton as town of birth site. No record of him attending Oxford University. His grandfather ( Francis ) and great uncle ( Robert ) were admitted to the University in 1595 and afterwards graduated.

1658- Thomas Edgerly the Second arrives in America.

1659- January 28- Thomas acquires first land at Oyster River, Dover, New Hampshire. On the southwest side of Long Creek ( Crummit's ). Soon after Thomas returns to London, England.

July 5 - Thomas Edgerley of London was bound as a Braiser (one who works in brass) to John Walter to serve four years in Barbados. He departed London by way of Bristol to take passage on ship to Barbados.

1659 to 1662- Thomas worked in Barbados when sites such as Jacobian mansions (Drax Hall, Nicholas Abbey) and Sunbury Plantation were being constructed and finished. These structures stand today along with Jewish temple finished in 1654.

1662- Thomas Edgerly returns to England. He worked as a Constable in Bletchingdon (town in Oxfordshire) between 1662 to November 1664. Petty Constable Tax records.

1664- November- Thomas, sensing the onset of The Great Plague, leaves for America to land he purchased in New Hampshire in 1659.

1665- January 19- Thomas Edgerly is received as inhabitant of Oyster River Township, New Hampshire.